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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Products & Services |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale (CA) , USA |
Number of locations | 6 (2015) |
Key people | A.G. Karunakaran (CEO) Curtis Davis (COO) Prof. Wen-mei Hwu (CTO) |
| Products | x265, UHDcode, MxPA |
| Services | video/ image processing, convolutional neural networks, software performance optimization |
Number of employees | 250 |
| Website | www.multicorewareinc.com |
MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, specializing in heterogeneous computing, including General-purpose computing on graphics processing units. MulticoreWare develops video software products and offers software development services in the areas of video processing, compilers, and machine learning, (specifically, Convolutional Neural Networks).[1] MulticoreWare's customers include AMD, ARM, Microsoft, Google, Telestream and BBright Technologies. MulticoreWare was founded in 2009 and today has offices in 3 countries – USA, China and India.[2]
MulticoreWare placed #110 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America for the year 2014.[3] St. Louis, Missouri based technology start-up accelerator ITEN has chosen MulticoreWare in its list of top ten tech startups in the St. Louis area[4] for three consecutive years (2012-2014). MulticoreWare was ranked the 22nd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley by Silicon Valley Business Journal in October 2014.[5] In July 2014, MulticoreWare was named to EE Times Silicon 60, a list of hot startups to watch.[2] MulticoreWare Inc. was a Tie50 Awards Finalist[6] at TiEcon2014.
Products
[edit]x265
[edit]MulticoreWare leads the development of the x265 HEVC encoder. x265 is based on the x264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder with a similar command-line syntax and feature set. x265 is offered under either the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2 license or a commercial license.[7]
UHDcode
[edit]MulticoreWare offers the UHDcode[1][8] HEVC video decoder API, available on x86, ARM, XBox360 and PS3. It has been OpenCL accelerated and supports HEVC Main/ Main10 profiles.
x265 HEVC Upgrade
[edit]In March 2015 MulticoreWare launched x265 HEVC Upgrade,[8] which includes the x265 Encoder application and the UHDcode DirectShow filter, allowing HEVC video playback on 64-bit Windows Media Player.
Multicore Cross Platform Architecture
[edit]Multicore Cross Platform Architecture (MxPA) is a heterogeneous computing stack based on the LLVM framework, capable of supporting OpenCL, Renderscript, CUDA and C AMP.[9][10]
KALMÁR C
[edit]KALMÁR[11] is an open source C compiler, with support for automatic heterogeneous offload to heterogeneous devices such as AMD APUs and discrete GPUs. KALMÁR is a Single Source ISO compliant C 11/14 compiler with libc support on Linux, which supports HSAIL, OpenCL SPIR, OpenCL C and x86 code generation.
Software Development Services
[edit]MulticoreWare has one of the world’s largest heterogeneous computing teams across the globe and offers accelerated software development services.[12] MulticoreWare is a Contributor Member of the Khronos Group[13] and is active on several standards. Its full range of services include:
- GPU accelerated software development[12][14]
- Multicore CPU application development[13]
- CUDA acceleration services for NVidia GPUs[15]
- C AMP software development services[16]
- Renderscript Android acceleration[14][17]
- Xilinx Alliance Partner services[18]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MulticoreWare: Powering Disruptive Solutions
- ^ a b EE Times Silicon 60: Hot Startups to Watch
- ^ The 2014 Inc. 5000
- ^ Here are St. Louis’ top 10 tech startups
- ^ The 50 fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley
- ^ Tie50 Awards Finalists 2014
- ^ x265 HEVC Video Encoder Project
- ^ a b MulticoreWare launches H.265 Encoders and Decoders
- ^ MulticoreWare Inc. Introduces Multicore Cross-platform Architecture (MXPA) for Portability
- ^ MulticoreWare Brings Unprecedented Performance and Productivity to New Processor Platforms
- ^ Kalmar : An open source C compiler for heterogeneous devices
- ^ a b AMD Profile: MulticoreWare Inc
- ^ a b Khronos Contributor Member
- ^ a b Accelerated Image Filters using GPU Compute on Mali-T600
- ^ NVidia CUDA Training and Consulting Partners
- ^ Bringing C AMP Beyond Windows via CLANG and LLVM
- ^ MulticoreWare Accelerates VP9, Google’s Next-Generation Open Video Codec
- ^ Xilinx Alliance Program Partner Page